Bellevue CollegeDirector
Tony Penders with the hosting services of Climb the Mountain Speech and
Debate Foundation led by Jim Hanson are excited to be offering the Northwest Parli Warmup, the year-starting tournament held this year
at Bellevue College.

·NPTE-NPDA
Parli: Current Event Topics, Mutuality Judge
Assignment that emphasizes inclusion of judges while providing equity and
some preference in judging placement, Warm room, Prep rooms, and 1 to 2
minute prep time/cross-examination before speeches during the rounds. Can be
done online!

Participants--students,
judges, observers, and coaches--are expected as a condition of participating
at our tournament to adhere to expectations for professional behavior and
caring treatment of others befitting a college event. Participants are
expected to assure a comfortable atmosphere for everyone. Participants shall
refrain from illegal drugs and alcohol consumption including being affected
by such vices throughout the tournament and being responsible and safe at
hotels. If schools have more restrictive policies, of course, schools should
follow those policies. We want and expect a professional tournament, safe and
responsible, and one we can be proud to show to administrators.

Every Director/Head
Coach at every school participating is expected to have their participants
read and agree to the following expectations:

POIs still occur as
is normal in parliamentary debates. Prep-CX does not replace points of
information.

CX works as is normal
with the speaker who just spoke taking questions. “Tag-team” CX is fine too
but the person speaking next should not be expected to participate.

3. 5 ROUNDS PLUS APPROPRIATE ELIMS

4. MUTUALITY PREFERENCING: Teams will preference
judges 1, 2, 3 etc. with a small number of strikes. Judges will be placed into
rounds based primarily on mutuality with a small lean toward preferencing. Teams with 3 losses will not receive a
judge in the 61st -85th percentile unless it is
absolutely necessary. In tests done with NPTE preferencing,
this approach to judge placement maintained good preferencing,
extremely high mutuality (meaning teams got judges they rated nearly
equally), and was significantly more inclusive in use of judging obligations.
In tests at the NW Warmup, we have had similar inclusive results.

1. PREPARATION BEFORE
THE TOURNAMENT:NPDA No pre-announced topics; the tournament will choose resolutions
based on important, widely publicized in August/September 2018, political
news events, domestic and international.IPDA will not be announced
prior to the tournament. IPDA topics will focus on current events, important
public, political, social, entertainment, sports, and technological issues.

2. RESOLUTIONSNPDA Teams will debate
resolutions that the tournament will announce online at The NW Warm Room Page and in a central
location 20 minutes before rounds begin. RESOLUTIONS
IPDA Debates will debate one of 5 resolutions provided by the tournament
after each debater in a round strikes 2 of the topics.

We will pay $21 for judging each NPDA round and can
assure that rate for judging Saturday 1:30pm to 9:15pm (4 NPDA rounds) and
Sunday 9:45am until 4:00pm (1 or 2 NPDA rounds and 2 or 4 IPDA rounds) and
provide free food!

We will pay $14 for judging each IPDA round Sunday 10am
to 7:30pm in IPDA debate and provide free food.

Got a judge willing to judge
extra rounds? We pay $21 for each extra NPDA-NPTE round and $14 for each
extra IPDA round.